undocumented functions in pkgutil

Benjamin musiccomposition at gmail.com
Thu May 29 22:47:52 EDT 2008


On May 29, 12:34 pm, Michele Simionato <michele.simion... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I see that the pkgutil module has many useful functions which are
> however undocumented.
> Does anybody know why it is so? In particolar, can I safely use
> pkg.walk_packages
> without risking a change of interface in the future? I looks unlikely,
> since pkgutil is
> used in setuptools, but I want to be sure before relying on it.

We don't change the API of undocumented functions. However, if you
find these functions useful and would like to work on documenting
these, please email docs at python.org.
>
>     Michele Simionato




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